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[caption id="attachment_1330" align="alignnone" width="622"]Nebo Protec Firearm Light is available at many Wal-Mart stores for about $40. Tip for the day: Don't buy this light.[/caption]   by John Boch (GunNews) - While wandering through the Wal-Mart sporting goods section looking for door prizes for one of our recent GSL Defense Training…

(Guns Save Life) - Barack Obama's home at 5046 S Greenwood Ave, Chicago, pictured above, has become the hub of a heavily guarded neighborhood. There is a constant, heavy police presence.  Many neighbors complain of intrusive searches and ID checks from Chicago police and U.S. Secret Service agents. [caption id=""…

Chicago Isn't Safe! For the second year in a row, Guns Save Life has urged members to avoid Chicago for vacation or business travel.  This year, the Illinois State Rifle Association joined Guns Save Life whereas last year, it was ISRA that first encouraged members and friends to avoid Chicago.…

[caption id="attachment_1392" align="alignnone" width="563"] Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation photo.[/caption] UPDATED (Guns Save Life.com) - We've seen a couple of open carry stories in the blagosphere in recent days, both of which embody embarrassing behavior on the part of supposed "pro-gun" activists which are really little more than knuckleheads…

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="480"] Photo courtesy The Tennessean.[/caption] by John Naese (GunsSaveLife.com) - Back in the day, Johnny Cash had a hit song, “One Piece at a Time” in which he told the story of working on a car assembly line, and taking home the pieces to build his own…

It's not just murders that are way up in Chicago.  Numbers slipping out from independent sources are showing numbers in several categories of serious crime are up. Despite claims by city officials that crime is down substantially, some are suggesting publicly that the official numbers touted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel…

When you get home tonight after a long day at work, tired as can be, just be thankful you aren't like Lane Yeager from near Great Falls, Montana.  He had a surprise visitor waiting for him Monday night when he turned on the light upon arriving home. It was a…

There is a post at Reddit from a gentleman who claims to be an NYPD officer and he offers a candid assessment of the training that NYPD cops get. We wrote last week about the Empire State Building shooting and cited the 12-pound triggers on NYPD guns as a contributing…

  [caption id="attachment_1216" align="alignnone" width="592"] photo courtesy cfnews13.com[/caption] Recently, the Stone Creek Church in Urbana, IL coordinated a gun "exchange" program in Champaign-Urbana, IL with the help of the Urbana Police Department. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoynASwfXRA&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] The event was held Saturday, August 4th, 2012 from 10-2. Members of Stone Creek Church, along with…

The Godfather Emanuel got his hands on the latest issue of GunNews and look what happened:   After bloody weekend, Chicago mayor pleads for help: 'You're not a snitch' By Lisa Balde, NBCChicago.com After another violent weekend in his city, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has a message for anyone involved in…